For Art Week, the entire school was given the topic of Creation, and Seal Class looked at People within this topic.

Mrs Rix chose the medium of Collage for us to work on, so we used different papers and ripping techniques to experiment.

We moved into different classes to use other art mediums, such as paint and printing, which was really fun. We also went outside to create our own natural faces.

Returning to the classroom for the last two days meant that we could now really focus on how we wanted our collage and the final canvas to look. We used lots of glue and the room was filled with torn paper.

This was our 1960s topic – where we started with a timeline and then went on to discover what an amazing time in history this was. We particularly enjoyed learning about Martin Luther-King and we thought of what our dreams for the world would be.

We had an ICT lesson to find out some amazing 1960s facts and were able to sort them into date order when we all worked together.

We really loved to hear about space and the Apollo 11 trip to the moon – so much that we decided our role play area should be about flying to the moon! In our literacy work, we wrote of aliens.

We studied the artist Roy Lichtenstein and used his techniques with Ben Day dots to create our own portraits. We were only able to use a limited range of colours, which meant that our display was very bright!

Seal Class really enjoy to read, so when Book Talk was introduced as a new lesson in 2016, they absolutely loved it!

For half an hour every day, a few pages were read and discussed by the class – looking at vocabulary, what was liked and disliked, questioning what had happened and what was going to happen. The children were all encouraged to have their opinions and to share ideas with the whole class.

We looked at fiction and non-fiction books, and these were just three of the books we enjoyed;

Here is a look back at our Titanic topic, which Seal Class really enjoyed working on…

First, we look at artefacts from the Titanic and had the opportunity to try on some fancy headwear! We used these photographs to create Titanic Portraits using charcoal. It was very messy!

For science, we investigated how to make a ship that would float using materials in the classroom and some creative junk modelling. Some ideas were better than others, and we thought hard about how we would improve on our models if we made them again.

We also looked at the art work of Joseph Turner and used his techniques to great effect when using water colours on our own Titanic paintings. At the parents evening, some people thought Miss Prouten had painted them all – they were SO good! (Here is the proof that she DIDN’T!)

We have had such a busy year this year, that we have had no time to blog! So to make up for this, we decided that we would give you a lovely look back at all the things your children have done in this year. They have grown so much in size and confidence, and are completely ready for starting Year 3 in September.

We wish them luck as they move into KS2 – we will miss them!

Let’s start with Forest School, which all the children enjoy, regardless of the weather!